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is pretty short and blah. We never ventured into Detroit much when I was a kid save for a Tigers game or 2 every year for about 15 years. I had and still have family that lives near 7 mile and Detroit Mercy but I haven't visited in years and visits back then were few and far between. Never ventured downtown at all until Comerica opened. It did not impress me then.

A few years passed, in 2008 I attended a concert at the Joe, had some free time before hand and drove around downtown a bit, I was just shocked at the emptyness and lack of activity on a work afternoon. My drive home that night took be along Grand River Ave and there were blocks of non functioning traffic signals and street lights, a complete ghost town. Probably the only time I actually felt fear in Detroit.

Between 2008 and 2012 I made several trips in and around Detroit just to explore and see some sites etc etc. It was at times just so sad to see such a beautiful city rotting away. I drove the length of Grand River Ave from the burbs and was just blown away that an American city could even look like that.

Anyway I didn't get a chance to go back until 2016 again for the Tigers and was pleasantly surprised by the resurgance around downtown, one year later I was blown away again by the activity and changes to the downtown areas and along Jefferson Ave.

Sidenote, its better now but the transition between Detroit and the Grosse Pointes along Jefferson Ave was just incredible a decade ago. I had to turn my car around just to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. Ghetto to million dollar mansions in one block.

that Vern had a serious alcohol problem he'd been battling for years. Earlier this week he was admitted to a hospital with possible alcohol poisoning and had been saying he wanted to kill himself. Very sad indeed.

wishy washy with this subject. On one hand I think its pretty bad form for a major college or university to associate itself with any kind of alcoholic brand. Its just a terrible overall message.

OTOH, I think most schools should be able to offer alcoholic drinks as long as they go by what seem to be pretty standard rules now of not over serving to individuals. On top of that most places make beers so damn expensive only an idiot would actually over consume at $9 a pop inside a stadium. Drink heavy before or after, during for such a price is just silly and those people will overconsume regardless of if its available in the stadium. There are plenty of people who love a nice cold beer during a game and could handle it fine.

But, I also remember the bad ol'days at UM when you could literally haul a cooler in and tuck it under your seat (ie right in the middle of the aisle) and walking around the stadium after a game you couldn't take two steps without kicking a beer can or whiskey bottle. But that was people making their own poor choices not a university selling them the alcohol.

Its a revenue stream, and I guess I'm ok with it but I don't want to see the block M on a billboard next to a bud light bottle or something worse.

didn't destroy Toys R'Us. Many factors including Wal-Mart who went after them with predatory pricing, later Amazon who could provide the same selection at a lower cost. And finally Wall Street who loaded the company up with debt it could never pay back as its revenue streams shrunk. And finally management (prior to Brandon) who failed to see the value that online sales could bring to the company and never managed to put a functioning website for sales into practice.

Dave was simply there to burry the coffin, and collect a small fee. (relatively small)

MSU gave him a courtesy offer, they rarely attended his games and Johns showed little interest in ever playing for the Spartans. It was evident as early as his Soph. year Johns was looking to play outside East Lansing and MSU was looking at other targets with different profiles.

Michigan got a good player from the state of Michigan, thats really it.

the man who abused a family member of mine has been allowed to live a productive life, raise a family and enjoy a career in teaching as an honors teacher with several awards for sevrvice. I can only imagine how many people he's damaged over the years. His is befriending, take them to concerts, fun times etc and use the date rape drug

My family member has lived a horrible life of depression, anxiety and suicide attempts. Its to difficult for them to speak up about it, to confront those that protected him and wouldn't listen.

He's one of those guys who lobbied to move State Police HQ to downtown. Low and behold the State Police found a building being built on the Grand River they could lease........from Joel Ferguson's company.

credit here, they've only jumped on the bandwagon once it go rolling. For the last few years they've simply accepted MSU's answers and said "ok" and moved on. Only now are they digging and with local access and local connections getting a deeper view into the issue.

The LSJ was asleep and almost as complicit to a certain degree, for not asking deeper questions or seeking deeper info. To my knowledge the LSJ has no FOIA demands from MSU like other further afield news organizations have.

I would have said the same thing. But when have you ever heard of a sitting University President and Athletics Director, both well respected in their fields resign within 2 days. They're out because they know its bad.

the Dunnings case from Ingham County is a significant tie in to how MSU athletic cases always seemed to get dropped going back decades.

Funny how once Dunnings was off the job MSU and Dantonio had his first sexual assault case. The EL Police and Michigan State Univ police are also pretty pathetic organizations when it comes to student crimes. No more than Parking meter maids and MIP fine producers

the wedge between the truth and Dantonio/Izzo's image. That's been broken now, expect a lot of terrible things to be revealed. The rumors around town really are terrible. The NCAA can review, and will review everything title IX related.

MSU has spent the better part of the last dozen years hiding documents from anyone who asked. The NCAA does not take kindly to that. Worse for MSU is that federal laws were likely broken, jail time seems inevitable for some parties involved.

This will take a couple years. Most likely Dantonio and possibly Izzo will retire before the final conclusions come in. But their reputations will be heavily damaged.

The image of MSU you'll see for the next couple years will be defending itself in the courtroom instead of lifting Big Ten and Rose Bowl trophies.

a bigger national story is the LSJ, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, along with the local television stations basically laid down on the story and reported it as if it were just a minor thing for a long long time. Refusing to ask the deeper questions of who knew and how long. Nearly everything the public learned about this case came from court proceedings, MSU wasn't forthcoming with anything and the press did very little to push the story.